In this paper we present a preliminary speech production study concerning the prosodic realization of the syntactic and information structure in German. Firstly, we made predictions for the relative prominence and their assignment with tonal patterns. Secondly, exhaustive acoustic analysis were used to test the expectations. The data of a production experiment with seven non-instructed normal subjects were analyzed and then compared with the data of one patient with prosodic disorders.
Cite as: Alter, K., Steinhauer, K., Friederici, A.D. (1998) De-accentuation: linguistic environments and prosodic realizations. Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), paper 0258, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.1998-104
@inproceedings{alter98_icslp,
author={Kai Alter and Karsten Steinhauer and Angela D. Friederici},
title={{De-accentuation: linguistic environments and prosodic realizations}},
year=1998,
booktitle={Proc. 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998)},
pages={paper 0258},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.1998-104}
}